New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-07
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.
THE GATHERING IN WASHINGTON.
ePIvAsURE MIXED WITH BUsINEss-A RECEPTION
AT THE WHITE UorsT

gYLEAsCRE MIXED WITH BUSINESS-A RECEPTioN
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
icy TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBuNEI
WASHINGTON, Sept. @. No longer do the titles OF
~Msjah and Colonel and Judge" strike the ears OF
the stranger no walks up Pennsylvania ave- 1t is
"Doctor" everywhere; in the streets In the hotels In
the shops in your houses even you are not very
we'll known about town. ten to one that before you nave
stepped into the street in the morning you VIII be nailed
by some enterprisng youngster: Paper this morning,
Doctor TRIBUNE, Post, Repubficdn-a the news about
, the Copgress!" Yes, the disciples Of Esculapus
seem 10 have the town and taken possession Of
A. completely. Bue badges and red ribbons and silver
medals everywhere. Thirty five hundred OF them and
more by actual count The foreign physicians are unani
mons In declaring their delight at the cordial reception
accorded them by their professional brethren Banques
entertainments aud receptions have been provided for
every day Of the week Excursions to Niagara to Wat
kins Glen and an extended through the south In
Gliding visit to Florida watering places and New
Orleans teen planned for the delighted foreigners
Tonight they received by the President and hrs
Cleveland On Thursday Secretary Whitney will receive
them at "Gfasslands." A number of citizens have
thrown open their houses Washington is deserted at
this season. but the few PEOPLE who are In town de-
termned TO keep up the good name of American hospi
taty It is generally conceded that the address of Dr.
Austin Flint of NewYork this morning on Fever its
Causes, Mechanism and Rational Treatment" was q
mastery exposition of difficult and interesting subject
Great praise too bestowed upon paper read yester
day by comparatively unknown Western physician,
DR. Nicholas Semi OF Milwaukee, in the Surgical Section
Intestinal Surgery" Nearly 500 surgeons listened
Dr. senns paper AMI its reading made an impression
amounting among dgnihed set of men to sensation
almost.
President Davis called the congress to order at II
o'clock this morning and introduced Dr. Austin Flint Of
New-York who proceeded to read his PAPER mentioned
above 1t largely Of technical character and was
listened 10 with profound interest by the large audience
levers especially those belonging to the class
diseases selflimted In their Duration. and are due
operation Of which ceases after the lapse OF certain
time. lever, as observed in the s0called essential
duction Of heat involving detective nutrition or mani
ton excessive production and discharge OF nitrogen
waste and degeneration Of the tissues and partial
complete OF the production and OF
water Aside from the influence OF complications ana
accidents tho ataxic symptoms in levers the intensity
and persistence of which endsnger life are secondary to
the fever and usually proportonte TO the elevation
of temperature The great objects In the treatment OF
sr S are 70 a to inH and ep and
degeneration of tissues and organs by alnentatlon 10
dnoon Of heat ana thus to place the system
favorable condition for rccuperatlon after the disease
Not than fifty persons rule attended any ono
Of the section meetings In the afternoon III he same
time, and meetings the papers were read 10 an
audience OF less than twenty people Richard H. Day.
Of Ba9 Sa ad ae an 6eeh sfh the
zion on Public and International Hygiene 1t WAS basel
letters received from over 0oO
sent to letters of inquiry. The conclusions
arrived at that oysrlows general rule were In
FURIOUS health and that the extent OF the injury was
dependent the duration OF the nuhdation ana us
season. that its evil effects lessened by good draln
age copous showers OF rain occurring during tile
subsideuce OF the wat,r ia.
One of the largest gatherings was that assembled TO
hear tie papecs read relating to dseases OF children
One interesting paper was by William stephenson, or
Aberdeen, Scotland. on The Rate of Growth ia Ameri
can and British Children and its Bearing on the lnyes
CATION of Diseases" Others were The Use or Cows
MIX 10 the Feeding OF Infants, Professor w. Z.
Vaughan, of the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor;
q Anatomical Characters of Mountainous Group as
Observed In Fatal Cases in the New-forE rounding
Asylum" W. p. Northrup. Newly ork City; Remarks on
Tubags OF the GlOtts and the Manner In which IL was
Praci ed in France" L. Bouchu OF Paris; Utilization
OF the Larynx. with demonstration on the Living SUD
feet" Drs Joseph Dwyer and Dillon Brown, New fork
City; syp Ills and Ricketts, in Brazil Dr. Moneorvo OF
Rio de Janero; Intubati0n versus IraehaeOt'iny In
the Treatment of Group" Professor L. h. "axhan' OF
Chicago. . >,,, r
was continued the Section on General surgery AN
Interesting paper read by John HomaBs OF Boston.
based upon 3Si of laparoomy within tue writers
own knowledge j. NJ Matthews OF LOUSY ille hy gave
his orinion OF when l8parotomy Is ustihsbe: paper
on the subject Dr. HeN son. OF Philadelphia was
read by the secretary. Dr. Dudley Fallen Donald Mac:
Lain read clinical notes in regard 10 TWO sue
cessfu and fatal of aparO nephrotomy ana an
exhaustive discussion then participated in ny rs
Kingston, of Montrea j. b. Murphy, OF Chicago Peck'
of Davenport, Iowa. and Others.